Mendel — #1590 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mendel

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,850 babies named Mendel between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mendel currently holds the #1590 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 108 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mendel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 675 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Mendel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 2,001 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Mendel in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mendel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,850 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.